Pre-Raphaelismn.

1852 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 24–5 July (1954) II. 48 The British Q[uarterl]y..have one subject of which I am jealous—‘Pre-Raphaelism in Painting and Literature’.

1853 W. M. Rossetti in Præraph. Diaries & Lett. (1900) 308 Though both Præraphaelism and Brotherhood are as real as ever.

1882 J. Ruskin Let. to Chesneau 20 Dec. (Ashley Libr. 1894) Pre-Raphaelism would properly express the method or manner of the painters who actually lived before Raphael—as ‘Raphaelism’ might generally be applied to the style of all his school, at every subsequent date.

1925 Burlington Mag. Feb. 57/1 The last forty years have seen English painting pass from the backwater of Pre-Raphaelism to join the main stream of European art; without, however, sacrificing its own individuality.

1949 College Art Jrnl. 9 124 Modern art's nostalgia for the primitive (a natural enlargement of the concept behind ‘Pre-Raphaelism’) is little else than a longing to resume the long-lost pre-scientific freedom of visual recording.

1970 Burlington Mag. Dec. Suppl. U10 By the 1890's he was already experimenting in his own brand of academic Pre-Raphaelism, out of touch with the modern movement.

2002 Oldie June 61/2 He continued to be drawn by the intense literary and romantic subjects that they at first favoured long after they had moved away from pure Pre-Raphaelism.